No one saw firedrake as he made his escape along the canal.

“The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth--one that nature is trying to heal.”

— Alan Weisman

“When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were…

— E. Nesbit

“I don't know why--there are no brick gables,' said Mrs. Prest, 'but this corner has seemed to me before more Dutch than Italian, more…

— Henry James

“only 10 million of the required 250 million cubic meters of earth had yet been removed. The undertaking is a vast one, far exceeding…

— Helen Josephine Sanborn

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal,…

— Michael Specter

In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.

— Norm Dicks

There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished,…

— Dean Devlin

“Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my…

— Ferdinand de Lesseps

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

— Larry Ziegler

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more…

— Alan Huffman

“I live on Canal St. My house is only accessible by boat.”

— Jarod Kintz

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a…

— J. August Richards

In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque,…

— Alex Berenson

I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could…

— Linda Ronstadt